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[Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>]

On Apr 12, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:

> Fair enough.  Perhaps I do have rose colored glasses.  Regardless I 
> hope
> this trend continues and the news remains positive for American 
> workers.

The trend is welcome, and the payroll report does describe a net gain 
in jobs. But the world doesn't stand still, and the population of 
working-age Americans grows by about 120,000 to 150,000 every month--so 
it's possible to have both more jobs, and more unemployed people. Many 
people see this as a reasonable baseline: We should at least be holding 
the line on the percentage of unemployed people. This month, yes.

Then there's the fact that many of the new jobs are lower-paying than 
the ones they "replaced," which sucks.

  =jimA=